Operation Dipscam
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Operation DIPSCAM (Operation Diploma Scam) was a series of investigations[1] carried out by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the General Accounting Office,[2] the Committee on Education and the Workforce and other agencies in the United States in the 1980s. It led to more than twenty convictions[1] and the closing of 39 diploma mills.[3]
[edit] References
- ^ a b Action Urged on Diploma Mills 27 September 2004, American Council on Education
- ^ Ryan Singel (18 March 2004). No Third Degree for Diploma Mills (html). Wired.
- ^ Diploma Mills Go Digital, eWENR Volume 13, Issue 4, July/August 2000
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[edit] Further reading
- Diploma Mills: Degrees of Fraud by David Wood Stewart and Henry A. Spille. New York: Macmillan Publishing Company 1988. Abstract, Education Resources Information Center
- Degree Mills: the Billion Dollar Industry That Has Sold More than a Million Fake College Diplomas by Allen Ezell and John Bear. Amherst, New York: Prometheus Books, 2005.
- Not For Novelty Purposes Only: Fake Degrees, Phony Transcripts, and Verification Services. Paper presented at 2004 Biennial Conference of the Association of Registrars of the Universities and Colleges of Canada (ARUCC)
